Diary of a Genius - Brossura

Dali, Salvador

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1840686790 ISBN 13: 9781840686791

Casa editrice: Deicide Pr, 2017

Riassunto

DIARY OF A GENIUS stands as one of the seminal texts of Surrealism, revealing the most astonishing and intimate workings of the mind of Salvador Dali, the eccentric polymath genius who became the living embodiment of the 20th century's most intensely subversive, disturbing and influential art movement.Dali's second volume of autobiography, DIARY OF A GENIUS covers his life from 1952 to 1963, during which years we learn of his amour fou for his wife Gala, and their relationship both at home in Cadaques and during bizarre world travels. We also learn how Dali draws inspiration from excrement, rotten fish and Vermeer's Lacemaker to enter his 'rhinocerontic' period, preaching his post-holocaustal gospels of nuclear mysticism and cosmogenic atavism; and we follow the labyrinthine mental journeys that lead to the creation of such paintings as the Assumption, and his film script The Flesh Wheelbarrow.This new expanded edition includes a brilliant and revelatory essay on Salvador Dali, and the importance of his art to the 20th century, by the author J G Ballard.Illustrated throughout in full colour, with over 60 works by the artist plus numerous documentary photographs.

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Recensione:

Dali's paintings reveal in the most powerful form the basic elements of the Surrealist imagination: a series of equations for dealing with the extraordinary transformations of our age. Let us salute this unique genius, who has counted for the first time the multiplication tables of obsession, psychopathology and possibility" -- JG Ballard

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Most famous Surrealist painter of the 20th century, whose name is synonymous with the art movement.

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• Editore: Deicide Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1840686790
• ISBN 13: 9781840686791
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 159